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  The 
  Chairman: 
  Let's 
  hear 
  about 
  frauds 
  from 
  someone 
  who 
  

   knows 
  how 
  the 
  land 
  was 
  managed 
  and 
  how 
  the 
  trees 
  were 
  man- 
  

   aged 
  and 
  how 
  it 
  actually 
  occurred. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Van 
  Duzee: 
  Mr. 
  President, 
  I 
  feel 
  that 
  I 
  ought 
  to 
  say 
  

   something, 
  first 
  in 
  commendation 
  of 
  the 
  paper 
  itself. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  

   question 
  how 
  far 
  we, 
  as 
  an 
  Association, 
  are 
  responsible 
  for 
  the 
  

   care 
  of 
  our 
  fellowmen, 
  but 
  at 
  this 
  period 
  when 
  the 
  industry 
  

   is 
  new, 
  I 
  feel 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  legitimate 
  thing 
  for 
  us 
  to 
  do 
  a 
  little 
  

   work 
  to 
  try 
  and 
  prevent 
  these 
  people 
  from 
  preying 
  upon 
  our 
  

   fellowmen. 
  The 
  president 
  remarked 
  this 
  morning 
  that 
  some- 
  

   thing 
  was 
  an 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  tremendous 
  waste 
  in 
  Nature. 
  It 
  

   is 
  true. 
  Nature, 
  in 
  building 
  a 
  forest, 
  wastes 
  a 
  vast 
  amount 
  of 
  

   time 
  and 
  energy. 
  These 
  people 
  who 
  are 
  preying 
  upon 
  the 
  nut 
  

   industry 
  today 
  find 
  as 
  their 
  victims 
  the 
  weaklings 
  which 
  Nature 
  

   buries 
  in 
  the 
  forest. 
  Those 
  things 
  are 
  incidental 
  and 
  we 
  must 
  

   expect 
  them, 
  but 
  I 
  feel 
  that 
  a 
  paper 
  of 
  this 
  kind, 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  

   is 
  a 
  very 
  valuable 
  thing 
  and 
  I 
  hope 
  it 
  will 
  receive 
  wide 
  publica- 
  

   tion. 
  We 
  cannot 
  say 
  too 
  much 
  to 
  discourage 
  this 
  sort 
  of 
  thing. 
  

   Now, 
  to 
  respond, 
  in 
  a 
  measure, 
  to 
  the 
  President's 
  request 
  for 
  

   actual 
  facts, 
  I 
  am 
  confronted 
  with 
  this 
  proposition, 
  that 
  some 
  

   of 
  the 
  men 
  who 
  have 
  made 
  the 
  greatest 
  failures 
  are 
  men 
  who 
  

   have 
  done 
  so 
  through 
  ignorance. 
  They 
  are 
  honest 
  men, 
  they 
  

   are 
  personal 
  friends 
  of 
  mine. 
  I 
  don't 
  care 
  to 
  go 
  too 
  much 
  into 
  

   details, 
  because 
  they 
  are 
  just 
  as 
  sorry 
  today 
  as 
  I 
  am, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  

   seen 
  this 
  done. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  hundreds 
  of 
  acres 
  of 
  nut 
  orchards 
  

   in 
  the 
  South 
  planted 
  with 
  the 
  culls 
  from 
  nurseries 
  bought 
  at 
  

   a 
  very 
  low 
  figure. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  these 
  trees 
  neglected 
  absolutely, 
  

   not 
  in 
  one 
  case 
  but 
  in 
  many 
  cases. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  the 
  weeds 
  as 
  high 
  

   as 
  the 
  trees 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  when 
  a 
  telegram 
  was 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  

   the 
  local 
  agent 
  that 
  a 
  carload 
  of 
  the 
  purchasers 
  of 
  these 
  tracts 
  

   was 
  about 
  to 
  leave 
  to 
  look 
  over 
  their 
  property. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  the 
  

   local 
  manager 
  hustle 
  out, 
  when 
  he 
  got 
  that 
  telegram, 
  and 
  hire 
  

   every 
  mule 
  in 
  the 
  community 
  to 
  come 
  in 
  and, 
  with 
  a 
  plow, 
  

   throw 
  a 
  furrow 
  or 
  two 
  to 
  the 
  rows 
  of 
  trees 
  so 
  that 
  they 
  could 
  

   be 
  distinguished 
  from 
  the 
  weeds 
  they 
  were 
  growing 
  among. 
  As 
  

   Mr. 
  Littlepage 
  has 
  said, 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  success 
  in 
  such 
  oper- 
  

   ations; 
  and 
  I 
  feel, 
  looking 
  at 
  it 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  way, 
  that 
  

   this 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  good 
  time 
  to 
  emphasize 
  the 
  point 
  that 
  those 
  of 
  

   us 
  who 
  have 
  the 
  greatest 
  experience 
  in 
  the 
  growing 
  of 
  nut 
  trees 
  

   do 
  not 
  feel 
  that 
  these 
  enterprises 
  are 
  legitimate, 
  or 
  that 
  they 
  

   promise 
  very 
  much 
  success. 
  (Applause.) 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Pomeroy: 
  I 
  live 
  just 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  Buffalo. 
  

  

  